In February, Arafat Jaradat was lawlessly arrested.
On arrival in detention he was healthy. He had no history of health
problems.

Shin Bet interrogators brutalized him. They did so
mercilessly. They tortured him to death. Severe upper body bruising,
blisters, and blot clots were visible. He had multiple broken bones
in his neck, spine, arms and legs. He died in severe pain.

Dozens of other Palestinians perished the same way.
Some did in prison. Others succumbed after release. Shin Bet killers
remain unaccountable.

They continue cruel and inhuman treatment. They do
so with impunity. Their rap sheet is one of the world's worst.

Palestinian prisoners suffer horrendously. Conditions
they endure include severe overcrowding, poor ventilation, deplorable
sanitation, inadequate clothing, wooden planks with thin mattresses
and filthy blankets, poor food in terms of quality, quantity and conformance
with dietary requirements, poor medical care, and restricted or no access
to family members and counsel.

Isolation is worse. Alone or with one other prisoner,
lockdown runs 23 hours daily. Most cells are 1.5 by 2 meters to 3 by
3.5. Little light or air gets in. Conditions resemble entombment. International
law is violated.

Since 1967, over 200 Palestinian prisoners died in
captivity. Dozens did from torture. Dozens more from medical neglect.
Treatable illnesses go unaddressed. It's standard Israeli practice.

Palestinian Prisoners Club president Kaddura Faris
said "Israel is killing prisoners through deliberate medical neglect."

The Supreme Council of Prisoners petitioned international
authorities. It asked them to pressure Israel to treat sick detainees.

Its plea went unanswered. World leaders do nothing.
They don't give a damn about Palestinians' health, welfare and rights.

Israeli medical neglect killed Maisara Abu Hamdiyya.
On April 2, he succumbed. He did so shackled painfully to his Soroka
Hospital bed. He called going there "another journey of suffering."
He was 64. He suffered from advanced throat cancer. It spread to his
spine.

Israel bears full responsibility. Days earlier, he
lost bodily movement. Death was imminent. In August 2012, he complained
of throat soreness and neck swelling.

He began losing weight. He lost his voice. In January,
it was entirely gone. He was fading. He had little time to live. He
wasn't told he had cancer until March. It was way too late to save him.

He was born in Hebron. He challenged occupation harshness.
He joined the Union of Palestinian Students. He studied electronics
in Cairo. He earned a law degree in Beirut. At home, he faced repeated
arrests.

He spent four decades in exile. In 1969, he was first
imprisoned. He worked in Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait and Jordan. He risked
arrest at home. He was detained numerous times. He was held administratively
without charge or trial.

Post-Oslo, he worked for the newly-formed PA Preventive
Security Force. On June 2, 2005, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
It was extended to 99 years. He committed no crimes.

He was a leader. He taught, wrote and inspired. Young
prisoners admired him. He was a role model. In 2007, he developed a
painful stomach ulcer. He endured willful medical neglect. He explained
his ordeal on Facebook, saying:

"The intentional negligence starts during the
treatment, when the doctors receive orders to not cure the patient but
to give him painkillers without any restoration of the damaged parts."

"These instructions come from the Israeli security
apparatus, and the goal is to keep the prisoners alive but not cured
to be a lesson to others."

He said heart disease patients only get painkillers.
A paralyzed one got abdominal injections. Intestinal damage followed.

Former hunger striker Khader Adnan explained how
ill prisoners are mistreated. "Some were beaten occasionally. Others
were chained by their arms and legs to their hospital beds."

"Still others were placed in some sort of cages
and totally ignored." Israeli prisons are "horrifying place(s)."

"The special
relationship between the PA and Israel is no secret," said Purkiss.
Al Haq general director, Shawan Jabarin, added:

"I know well the security cooperation between
the PA and Israel hasn't stopped at any time. The political talks and
negotiations have stopped, but the security coordination has always
continued."

"Israel, the US, Arab states, and Europe, they
all need the PA to continue. It is not in their interest to destroy
the PA or for it to collapse."

"Israel and the US use that pressure to the
PA in the ceiling of what they want to do. Politically speaking, it
is a servant for Israel and still takes all the responsibility."

Oslo created the PA. Its an Israeli puppet. Its role
is enforcer. "When one third of the population is dependent on
a wage from the PA," said Purkiss, "it becomes clear that
to keep the general public in favor of the PLO, the PLO must keep Israel
in its favor."

Doing so violates Palestinian rights and welfare.
PA officials share responsibility. They do so with Israel. One-third
of its budget goes for security. Israel alone benefits.

"Not only is it recognized here that the PA
is openly sharing files with Israelís notorious intelligence agency,
the Shin Bet," said Purkiss, "there is no attempt to hide
the fact that the entity of the PA has been created solely for this
purpose, as a 'tool.' "

It spurns its own people. It lets them suffer in
prison and die. It does nothing to intervene and help. Disingenuous
rhetoric rings hollow. It substitutes for action. It never comes.

On April 3, the Jerusalem
Post said 4,500 Palestinian began
hunger striking. They'll do so for three days or longer. They're protesting
Hamdiyeh's death.

Five died since January 2011.
It was after the ICRC "concluded an agreement with the Occupation
to cut down the medical services provided to sick prisoners, reducing
the financial contribution of the ICRC to costs of medical care in Israeli
prisons and requiring prisoners to cover a substantial part of those
medical expenses themselves."

A previous
article discussed ICRC duplicity.
It supports imperialism for profit. It benefits from human misery. It
blew its cover many times.

Its claimed humanitarian mission
is cover. What's involved is money, special privileges, and connections
to people in high places. Francis Boyle calls ICRC "shameless.
But such has always been the ICRC."

It's "always been the
most sanctimonious gang of hypocrites in the NGO world." Its close
ties to Western intelligence are well-known. They're not publicly acknowledged.
Doing so would blow its cover.

The Palestinian Human Rights
Organizations (PHROC) called Hamdiya's death "the latest installment
in a long series of war crimes committed by the Occupation State and
the IPS against Palestinian prisoners and detainees."

It expressed concern for longterm
Palestinian hunger strikers and other prisoners suffering from untreated
illnesses.

It demands UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon act responsibly. It called on him to help. He'll do nothing.
He's reliable imperial tool.

PHROC wants PA officials "to
immediately accede to the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute
of the International Criminal Court (ICC)."

"The Council further
calls on the PA to actively engage in legal efforts to hold the Occupation
State accountable and to contribute to efforts to boycott and divest
from the Occupation State."

Palestinians must act in their
own behalf. PA officials spurn them. Outside help's not forthcoming.
Liberation depends on them. Hopefully they're up to the challenge."